WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 (AFP) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will speak at an appropriate National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting this week. A man opened fire on a school in the state.
Trump’s speech at the annual event of the powerful gun lobby group is scheduled for Friday.
“America needs real solutions and real leadership right now, not politicians and partisanship,” the former president wrote on his social network, Truth Social. Said.
“Therefore, I will continue my long-standing commitment to speak at the NRA Convention in Texas and make an important speech to the United States,” Trump said.
The former president’s plans and words put him on a direct confrontation route with current President Joe Biden, who, after Tuesday’s massacre, said the United States must stand up to the NRA and pass substantial legislation to stop the violence.
“When are we going to do what everybody knows needs to be done, for God’s sake,” Biden told the nation in the hours after the attack. he asked.
The massacre in Uvalde, Texas, followed a series of similar attacks in the United States this month: the worst occurred on May 14, when an 18-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist shot and killed 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket. . , New York.
Despite repeated incidents of mass shootings by gunmen, several attempts in the US Congress to reform gun regulations have failed, leaving states and local governments the power to tighten or relax their own restrictions.
source: Noticias
